capo for bass

[hayabusa]

does anyone know where i can get a capo for bass? the songs i play with my band regularly changes key. my skills not up to the standard to transpose with an imaginary capo, so i need a real one. so far, i have not seen any capo for bass in the music shops yet.

[kdash]

wow what kind of songs do you play? i have been playing bass for some time but i really don't know of anyone who uses a capo for bass. the only reason i can think of is when you need to play chords on a 6 string bass or something like that.

back to capos, actually normal guitar capos can do the job, as long as it's big enough, like maybe the dunlop ones. unless your bass has a very thick neck.

[TidesOfBlood]

lol i've thought of using a capo before.. but that's just being plain lazy.

i say, practice practice practice. unless you're chording with your bass throughout the whole song, using a capo is quite unecessary, in my opinion.

[kdash]

by memorising the positions of the notes on the fingerboard, and by knowing your scales well, you will be able to transfer the scales all over the fingerboard. whenever a new key comes up, you just need to know where on the bass is the root note, and that serves as your anchor.

[hayabusa]

i'm not up to level to transpose mentally. the songs i play requires contsant re-transposing. because we've got a few singers and they've got different keys. also don't have the luxury of time to rewrite the chords on the sheets so a capo is the next best thing for a quick fix. i've seen victor wooten using one on some of his videos. looks like a tie-on thing.

now, intentions aside, has anyone ever seen one?

[yuujin]

i used a capo once in a gig where my singer had to drop a key. out of no where and go back to standard tuning the next. used a dunlop guitar capo.
as long as its big enough. it'll work

[kdash]

yups a dunlop guitar capo should do the trick. sold at davis guitar for $20 thereabouts.

[hayabusa]

thanks bro, now that's more like an answer

[kdash]

haha no problem bro. it's just that i was surprised that a bassist wants to use a capo, hence the thread went slightly off-track.

[aquanaut]

bass players who 'capo' their bass are just plain lazy and a disgrace to all players of bass-dom.
for goodness sake...you are playing root notes 95% of the time....learn your notes on the neck.